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The women and men of Roberto Ferri, a thirty-year-old artist from Taranto who has already made a name for himself even on the international art scene, with their slender bodies, perfect muscles and intriguing poses are inspired by the greatest Italian masters, from Caravaggio to Michelangelo and Guercino, all of whom Ferri studied closely. But there is more: his paintings translate into images the dreams or (perhaps) the nightmares of each of us; all we have inside, all we feel, beyond the senses, in a way that is more or less conscious, verbalised or can be verbalised. Roberto Ferri gives life, substance and form (a rather beautiful form) to his and our phantasms. Oftentimes, he accompanies his own men and women with devices, inspired mainly by time and ancient in form though totally modern, becoming elements of our age and of his fantasies. They consist in sextants, crowns and clock gears, chains, astrolabes that render even more fascinating, but at the same time more mysterious, his compositions.

Angels and demons, spiritual aspirations and the bonds of the flesh, purity and lasciviousness are some of the recurrent themes in Roberto Ferris oeuvre: like leitmotivs that create a game, most of the time quite subtle and very cerebral, in no way banal or predictable, based upon a technique of painting taken to the highest level. [Ferri] is unquestionably the student with the greatest technical skill that Ive ever met, says Gaetano Castelli, former President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and one of the most celebrated Italian stage designers. One may say that Ferris truly is a painter with a calling: he has never forgotten a precept of Goethe, according to whom in art, good enough is excellent. His is an absolute hymn to painting: a reconsideration, quite meditated and introspective, of some of the greats of classicism.

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